queuebert

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by queuebert 7mo ago
Another possibility is that you are actually an AI and don't know it.
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by queuebert 8mo ago
Momentum change is literally the same thing as a force. That makes what you said nonsensical. The first thing physics students are taught is that F=ma, which is F=dp/dt.
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by queuebert 8mo ago
These are amazing illustrations, but I don't understand the emphasis on pressure differentials. That is not how wings generate lift. Due to attachment they deflect the flow, and the momentum change generates an upward force [1]. The p
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by queuebert 8mo ago
What is obviously false about it? You can't just assert things as true. That's why the Democrats keep losing. (See what I did there?)
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by queuebert 8mo ago
All things being equal, SF has some of the most desirable weather on the planet, so it will always have an high cost of living due to excess demand.
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by queuebert 8mo ago
You seem to be intuiting some kind of chi squared minimization. It is true that fewer free parameters constrain models, but there is nothing in nature that prefers simplicity. That is probably the most annoying thing to us physicists. Even
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by queuebert 8mo ago
Most commercial services near me use trucks with or without a trailer. Painters tend to use vans, and some electricians. Everyone else has a truck with a logo on it. You can't tow well with a van, so it has to be a company that never t
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by queuebert 8mo ago
I get your point, but those tow numbers are notoriously optimistic. Most people I bet would not be comfortable towing 4000 lbs with a Maverick, and it would struggle on grades or in heat. You can even feel that kind of weight with a full-s
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by queuebert 8mo ago
You're out of touch with the working class. Some people practically live in these trucks. A little comfort goes a long way toward making their day bearable. Leather is easy to clean, power adjustment makes the seat more comfortable. Au
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by queuebert 8mo ago
Now that you edited your post to correct your spelling, people probably have no idea what I'm talking about.
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by queuebert 8mo ago
Laundry detergent is usually priced as cents per load by savvy shoppers. That would factor out smaller doses.
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by queuebert 8mo ago
Credit card companies have all of this data. They could track classes of spending and regress out rising incomes, age, etc.
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by queuebert 8mo ago
"Back in my day, we had a cardboard box and a stick and didn't complain ..."
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by queuebert 8mo ago
There is no a priori reason why a bunch of meatbags would have the ability to test all laws of physics of this universe. I think we may have gotten lucky for a while there. String theory is so far out there that a new methodology has been
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by queuebert 8mo ago
Lumpy Quantum Gravy is real. I've seen it at Thanksgiving.
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by queuebert 9mo ago
What an abysmally cynical take. More good stuff is good. Be happy about it.
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by queuebert 9mo ago
Cargo Cult Steve Jobs is your answer.
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by queuebert 9mo ago
Malcolm Longair's books are really what most people who want to read the Feynman lectures should read.
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by queuebert 9mo ago
I'm with you. As a physicist, I never found his lectures easy to learn from. They do have interesting explanations, though.
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by queuebert 9mo ago
This should be required reading to make an account here.
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by queuebert 9mo ago
He's not perfect, but he's really good at explaining science and conveying a sense of awe.
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by queuebert 9mo ago
Adobe's contempt for users strikes again.
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by queuebert 9mo ago
Why 1320 and not larger?
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by queuebert 9mo ago
The sheer amount of compute spent on advertising on this planet boggles my mind.
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by queuebert 9mo ago
Missing the "We have too many file formats for X, so I made another". Could also prepopulate the comments with the ubiquitous xkcd reference.
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by queuebert 9mo ago
Let's be honest. It's been mostly downhill since AOL.
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by queuebert 9mo ago
> Biggest drawback though is that it's over-optimized for matrix math ... I think this is what inspired the creation of Julia -- they wanted a Matlab clone where for loops were fast because some problems don't fit the matrix mi
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by queuebert 9mo ago
That's why I mentioned the assumption about the velocity distribution. Sure, the velocities aren't Maxwell-Boltzmann, but that doesn't matter too much for getting a sense of the scale of the issue. The way an astrophysicist t
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by queuebert 9mo ago
Genuine question: What else would it do? The mouse trail is a history of coordinates, so that should be linear, right?
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by queuebert 9mo ago
At this point, is there any downside to switching to GitLab?

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